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Think this measure is actually targeted at the taxi companies more than the asylum seekers.
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Think this measure is actually targeted at the taxi companies more than the asylum seekers.
Everytime I think we have reached peak Nimby there is another new high. Truly magnificent.
Police are now investigating the deliberate poisoning of trees on a Dartmoor common owned by Prince William’s Duchy estate, according to the Western Morning News
The Duchy has condemned the culprit
All Dartmoor farming, heritage & conservation groups must condemn this act of ecological sabotage
The Duchy has condemned the culprit
All Dartmoor farming, heritage & conservation groups must condemn this act of ecological sabotage
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Everytime I think we have reached peak Nimby there is another new high. Truly magnificent.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I found some more charts on this topic. One in 20 houses in England is 5 or more bed rooms. Over 1 in 6 are 4 bed. 4 bed is now substantially more common than one bed.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I found some more charts on this topic. One in 20 houses in England is 5 or more bed rooms. Over 1 in 6 are 4 bed. 4 bed is now substantially more common than one bed.
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One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case:
building more housing lowers rents
building more housing lowers rents
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YIMBYism actually works and we increasingly have the data to prove it.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
YIMBYism actually works and we increasingly have the data to prove it.
This is a strategy problem. 18 months ago Starmer said he would not touch it because he believed in putting working Britons first. Now that was bad policy and stupid but you can harps fault your political opponents for throwing your own words back at you!
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is a strategy problem. 18 months ago Starmer said he would not touch it because he believed in putting working Britons first. Now that was bad policy and stupid but you can harps fault your political opponents for throwing your own words back at you!
Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
I’m going to become the joker
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I’m going to become the joker
Here is how I am feeling about the budget on budget eve.
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Here is how I am feeling about the budget on budget eve.
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Ultimately the minimum wage is a brilliant tool, but it can’t compensate for “we haven’t built any housing”, “we have cut cash transfers to the bone” and “all the third spaces have been cut to pay for social care”.
The minimum wage is not a cure all — we’re asking too much of business
Politicians spend too much time uttering cheap rhetoric about cheap labour
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Ultimately the minimum wage is a brilliant tool, but it can’t compensate for “we haven’t built any housing”, “we have cut cash transfers to the bone” and “all the third spaces have been cut to pay for social care”.
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this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
It’s really incredible how we decided that cities should no longer be physically shaped by the industries that carry them. I wrote this about the tech industry’s lack of a built legacy in Manhattan over a decade ago, but it could be written 10x over in the Bay Area newyorkyimby.com/2014/12/how-...
How New York City is Robbing Itself of the Tech Industry's Built Legacy - New York YIMBY
With strict limits on growth in Midtown South and on the Brooklyn waterfront, tech giants are leaving little architecture behind for future generations.
newyorkyimby.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
this is because people want to turn their cities into museums of their own past. they don't want the future. they want to turn into dust reflecting on how awesome they used to be
Wake up, check the ft.com over breakfast, and they are leading with a story about people shorting the £. So seems like its going great for reeves then. www.ft.com/content/fefd...
Currency traders bet against sterling ahead of Budget
Investors buy option protection on fears Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising measures could hurt growth
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Wake up, check the ft.com over breakfast, and they are leading with a story about people shorting the £. So seems like its going great for reeves then. www.ft.com/content/fefd...
Not since the Corn Laws have we had a government this committed to keeping food prices high.
UK supermarkets set to be hit by higher business rates after Treasury U-turn
Chancellor expected to use Budget to include large retail premises in the top band of the property-based levy
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Not since the Corn Laws have we had a government this committed to keeping food prices high.
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A source close to Rachel Reeves commented: “People are going to love this budget. She’s really done it this time and she will definitely, positively, not have to do another one like this.”
A market analyst said: “Hmmmmmmmmmmm.” 2/2
A market analyst said: “Hmmmmmmmmmmm.” 2/2
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A source close to Rachel Reeves commented: “People are going to love this budget. She’s really done it this time and she will definitely, positively, not have to do another one like this.”
A market analyst said: “Hmmmmmmmmmmm.” 2/2
A market analyst said: “Hmmmmmmmmmmm.” 2/2
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November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It’s great though. A year round sport. We then get a month of recriminations, then it’s Christmas and then we get to start forecasting the spring statement changes that will be needed when growth and spending once again disappoint the forecasts.
All the news is people shouting about a budget which has been going on for approximately 45 years and still hasn’t been delivered
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
It’s great though. A year round sport. We then get a month of recriminations, then it’s Christmas and then we get to start forecasting the spring statement changes that will be needed when growth and spending once again disappoint the forecasts.
Well after my PhD I did a bunch of research for a defence firm but then in my late twenties was having my first child and I needed a house in London so went into hedge funds.
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Well after my PhD I did a bunch of research for a defence firm but then in my late twenties was having my first child and I needed a house in London so went into hedge funds.
I do get unreasonably angry about this because it’s now been widely known that ‘the us has among the worst maternal mortality in the developed world’ is false definitively for a decade, and pretty much everyone competent remotely interested in this topic knows it, and yet journos just don’t care.
What is most enraging to me is that this guardian article repeats the lie that US maternal mortality is among the worst in the developed world. This is straightforwardly untrue and known to be a result of measurement differences.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I do get unreasonably angry about this because it’s now been widely known that ‘the us has among the worst maternal mortality in the developed world’ is false definitively for a decade, and pretty much everyone competent remotely interested in this topic knows it, and yet journos just don’t care.
What is most enraging to me is that this guardian article repeats the lie that US maternal mortality is among the worst in the developed world. This is straightforwardly untrue and known to be a result of measurement differences.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What is most enraging to me is that this guardian article repeats the lie that US maternal mortality is among the worst in the developed world. This is straightforwardly untrue and known to be a result of measurement differences.
It takes a photon created in the center of the sun about 1000 years to reach the edge of the sun and then just 7 minutes to reach earth.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It takes a photon created in the center of the sun about 1000 years to reach the edge of the sun and then just 7 minutes to reach earth.
Britians most eminent urban economist absolutely nailing it here.
The housing crisis has been brewing for a long time, according to Professor Paul Cheshire 👇
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Britians most eminent urban economist absolutely nailing it here.
In 2004 interest rates were broadly similar to now so I really don’t understand people who think we can’t build enough to get price to income ratios back to 2005 levels. Obviously we can! And on the right hand chart many places are close to switching to dark blue at 12+ 😱😱😱
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In 2004 interest rates were broadly similar to now so I really don’t understand people who think we can’t build enough to get price to income ratios back to 2005 levels. Obviously we can! And on the right hand chart many places are close to switching to dark blue at 12+ 😱😱😱